kopile
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *kopylъ (“shoot, sprout; bastard”), from *kopàti (“to dig, cultivate”); compare Ukrainian копил (kopyl) or копиля (kopylja), Bulgarian ко́пеле (kópele). Alternatively an old paleo-Balkan substrate word; compare Romanian copil, Aromanian cochil, Albanian kopil, Byzantine Greek κόπελος (kópelos). First attested in the 17th century.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kȍpile n (Cyrillic spelling ко̏пиле)
- (derogatory) bastard (illegitimate child)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | kopile | kopilad |
| genitive | kopileta | kopiladi |
| dative | kopiletu | kopiladi |
| accusative | kopile | kopilad |
| vocative | kopile | kopiladi |
| locative | kopiletu | kopiladi |
| instrumental | kopiletom | kopilađu / kopiladi |
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko, Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk (2016), “kopile”, in Matasović, Ranko, editor, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume I: A – Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 478
Further reading
[edit]- “kopile”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
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